Another simple homemade gift idea…
January 3, 2009
This looks quite tasty, and only uses two ingredients!!
Basically, you melt some white chocolate (or whatever kind of chocolate you prefer) in the microwave, and then toss some ready popped popcorn in the chocolate. Once it is coated, you leave the popcorn on a sheet of baking paper, and then you can store your popcorn in an airtight container!
More details and photos here.
More Home-Made Hot Chocolate
January 2, 2009
I love this idea for home made hot chocolate mix – and the packaging is a lovely idea if you wanted to give some to your friends as gifts.
Quoting from www.yumsugar.com: (although I recommend following the recipe directly from the website as they have some lovely step-by-step photos along with the instructions!!)
Ingredients
4 cups granulated sugar
1/2 vanilla bean, split crosswise
1 1/2 pounds high-quality semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
8 ounces milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch process
Place sugar in large bowl. Split half vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape seeds into sugar, and add pod. Work seeds in with your fingers. Cover snugly with plastic wrap and let stand overnight at room temperature.
In food processor fitted with metal blade, process semisweet chocolate and milk chocolate until finely ground, using 4-second pulses. (Process in two batches if necessary.)
Remove pod from sugar. Add ground chocolate and cocoa powder to sugar and whisk to blend.
To gift, carefully transfer mix to decorative jars or bags. Add instruction labels for recipents: “For each serving, heat 8 ounces milk in small saucepan over medium heat until scalded (or microwave 2 1/2 minutes at full power). Whisk in 1/4 to 1/3 cup mix. Serve with unsweetened softly whipped cream or marshmallows. Mix keeps airtight at room temperature for up to six months.”
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Make your own chocolate gifts – Packaging
December 9, 2008
In the last few blog posts, we have given you a few ideas on making your own chocolate inspired gifts.
Once you have made your delicious homemade truffles or other homemade goodies, you need some way of presenting them to give as gifts.
Here are a few ideas that you can make yourself at home..
Soak an empty jam jar (or similar) in warm soapy water to remove the labels and give them a good clean. Fill with your homemade goodies, and either print some labels and a “lid cover”, or use some scap pieces of fabric or wrapping paper. Finish off with a piece of ribbon around the top, and write or print a personalised gift tag to tie on.
Or you could have a go at making the little gift boxes in the picture. You can download templates here, and use some patterened card stock, or just print the templates with the design already on them on some plain card. You can decorate them with some stickers, or ribbons.
One idea I came accross was here.. Use some old greetings cards to make small patterened boxes for your goodies.
There are a few ideas to get you started. If you have any more ideas, or would like to share your finished product, please post a link below!!